NR 603 EXAM 1 WITH ACTUAL
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
ABSOLUTE CORRECT ANSWERS|
APPROVED BY EXPERT| 2025\2026 NEW
UPDATE.
Typical human land use - ANSWER ✔✔ Industry, agriculture, development. Impacts are
cumulative, persistent, and often far from source.
Land cover - ANSWER ✔✔ physical state (habitat or vegetation type) of the land
land-cover change - ANSWER ✔✔ reflects the change in cover type. Can be conversion,
increase/decrease, fragmentation. Can be natural or anthropogenic.
Land use - ANSWER ✔✔ The manner in which humans employ the land and its resources
Land-use change - ANSWER ✔✔ How human use of the land has changed over time
Land-use legacy - ANSWER ✔✔ Enduring consequences of land-use practices on ecosystem
structure and function decades or centuries or longer after they have occurred and natural
processes have been alive.
Legacy effects - ANSWER ✔✔ Recognizing them can add explanatory power in understanding
modern conditions and managing for future conditions
Historical human land use - ANSWER ✔✔ Began about 10,000 years ago as burning to clear
land. Most intense changes over the last 150 years due to mechanized agriculture and explosive
human population growth
Human land use and the physical template - ANSWER ✔✔ Can interact to shape landscapes and
eventually impact the plants and animals in the system.
Patterns of land use - ANSWER ✔✔ Can change the rate and direction of naturals processes and
natural disturbances. They can also introduce new and novel forms of disturbance
Alternative stable states - ANSWER ✔✔ A change, seemingly large or small, can shift and
ecosystem to a new state and reversal of the change may not result in a return to the original
conditions.
Baseline - ANSWER ✔✔ a reference point in the past against which the current state of the
system can be evaluated
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
ABSOLUTE CORRECT ANSWERS|
APPROVED BY EXPERT| 2025\2026 NEW
UPDATE.
Typical human land use - ANSWER ✔✔ Industry, agriculture, development. Impacts are
cumulative, persistent, and often far from source.
Land cover - ANSWER ✔✔ physical state (habitat or vegetation type) of the land
land-cover change - ANSWER ✔✔ reflects the change in cover type. Can be conversion,
increase/decrease, fragmentation. Can be natural or anthropogenic.
Land use - ANSWER ✔✔ The manner in which humans employ the land and its resources
Land-use change - ANSWER ✔✔ How human use of the land has changed over time
Land-use legacy - ANSWER ✔✔ Enduring consequences of land-use practices on ecosystem
structure and function decades or centuries or longer after they have occurred and natural
processes have been alive.
Legacy effects - ANSWER ✔✔ Recognizing them can add explanatory power in understanding
modern conditions and managing for future conditions
Historical human land use - ANSWER ✔✔ Began about 10,000 years ago as burning to clear
land. Most intense changes over the last 150 years due to mechanized agriculture and explosive
human population growth
Human land use and the physical template - ANSWER ✔✔ Can interact to shape landscapes and
eventually impact the plants and animals in the system.
Patterns of land use - ANSWER ✔✔ Can change the rate and direction of naturals processes and
natural disturbances. They can also introduce new and novel forms of disturbance
Alternative stable states - ANSWER ✔✔ A change, seemingly large or small, can shift and
ecosystem to a new state and reversal of the change may not result in a return to the original
conditions.
Baseline - ANSWER ✔✔ a reference point in the past against which the current state of the
system can be evaluated
